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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Elizabeth II age 44
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 76
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Richard Nixon age 57
President - United States
Hirohito age 69
Emperor - Japan
Georges Pompidou age 59
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 83
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 78
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 51
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 78
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 51
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 77
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 40
King - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 71
President - Germany
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 56
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 63
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 59
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 51
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 64
President - Brazil
Tôn Đức Thắng age 82
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 52
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 58
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Pol Pot age 45
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 61
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 44
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 53
Prime Minister - India
Golda Meir age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 72
Premier - People's Republic of China
Eisaku Satō age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Edward Heath age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Kosygin age 66
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 54
President - World Bank
Emilio Colombo age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 55
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 83
President - International Olympic Committee
B. J. Vorster age 54
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 69
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 64
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Nureddin al-Atassi age 41
Prime Minister - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Jack Lynch age 53
Taoiseach - Ireland
Manlio Brosio age 73
Secretary General - NATO
Franco Maria Malfatti age 43
President - European Commission
Mahmoud Fawzi age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
Warren E. Burger age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 33
Vice President - Iraq
Spiro Agnew age 52
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 77
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 84
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 42
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 66
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 62
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 61
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 72
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 69
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 70
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
William Westmoreland age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William P. Rogers age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Melvin Laird age 48
Secretary of Defense - United States
John N. Mitchell age 57
Attorney General - United States
Reginald Maudling age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Anthony Barber age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 75
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Harold Wilson age 54
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Richard Kleindienst age 47
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Geoffrey Rippon age 46
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 41
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 53
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 38
President - Sinn Féin
John Paul Stevens age 50
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Walter Mondale age 42
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 46
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 56
Senate - United States
William B. Saxbe age 54
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George H. W. Bush age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 57
House of Representatives - United States
James Callaghan age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Carr age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 59
Governor of California - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 62
Governor of New York - United States
Winthrop Rockefeller age 58
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Preston Smith age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
Marvin Mandel age 50
Governor of Maryland - United States
Edgar Whitcomb age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Lester Maddox age 55
Governor of Georgia - United States
Jim Rhodes age 61
Governor of Ohio - United States
Francis Sargent age 55
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Buford Ellington age 63
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William T. Cahill age 58
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 42
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 53
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 77
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Salvador Allende age 62
President - Chile
Suharto age 49
President - Indonesia
Park Chung-hee age 53
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 30
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 64
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 40
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 77
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 48
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 49
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 35
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 67
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 80
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 34
President - Gabon
Urho Kekkonen age 70
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 88
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 41
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 46
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 67
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 58
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 48
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 44
President - Uganda
Frederik IX of Denmark age 71
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 88
King - Sweden
V. V. Giri age 76
President - India
Yahya Khan age 53
President - Pakistan
Cevdet Sunay age 71
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 65
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 47
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 38
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 63
President - Haiti
Siad Barre age 51
President - Somalia
Makarios III age 57
President - Cyprus
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 46
President - Equatorial Guinea
Giuseppe Saragat age 72
President - Italy
Seretse Khama age 49
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 46
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 34
President - Togo
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 44
President - Nicaragua
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 41
King - Bhutan
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Franz Jonas age 71
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 71
King - Eswatini
Moussa Traoré age 34
President - Mali
Rafael Caldera age 54
President - Venezuela
Zalman Shazar age 80
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 58
President - Madagascar
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 46
President - The Gambia
François Tombalbaye age 52
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 53
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 36
President - Nigeria
José Figueres Ferrer age 64
President - Costa Rica
Diori Hamani age 54
President - Niger
William Tubman age 75
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 52
King - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 60
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 39
President - Sudan
Joaquín Balaguer age 64
President - Dominican Republic
Yusof bin Ishak age 60
President - Singapore
Moktar Ould Daddah age 45
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 30
President - Burundi
Marien Ngouabi age 31
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 37
Emir - Bahrain
Arthur Chung age 52
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 54
President - Burkina Faso
Américo Tomás age 76
President - Portugal
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 50
President - Uruguay
Haxhi Lleshi age 57
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 49
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 32
King - Lesotho
Grégoire Kayibanda age 46
President - Rwanda
Hammer DeRoburt age 48
President - Nauru
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 50
President - Argentina
Edward Akufo-Addo age 64
President - Ghana
Ibrahim Nasir age 44
President - Maldives
Juan José Torres age 50
President - Bolivia
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 47
President - Colombia
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 53
President - El Salvador
Suleiman Frangieh age 60
President - Lebanon